Lawrence Kemp

“When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

“but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch